Chris, 

"Well, how old do you mean by old?  As in, if I had an ancient ISA video
card or three, would you want something like that?"  Possibly.  Please
tell me what they are.  Was thinking more like early PCIs for a P3 Test
PC that does not have ISA slots.

"I tried ReactOS about a year ago and was not able to load it, because
at least at that time it didn't have functionality at initial boot to
allow pressing F6 to install a hard disk controller driver from floppy
before installing.  As such it couldn't detect the onboard RAID
controller, and so the attempt at installing it ended there.
Other than the above obvious frustration, ReactOS does look promising." 
My problem was once I had booted it, there were no Windows apps of
interest that I could  even run.  Am going to wait until Wine has the
DLLs I need.

"I'm wondering why you'd want to play with BeOS, since I believe that
product has been deprecated for quite some time now. Actually there has
been a resurgence the last couple years.  More new app developers on
bebits. http://www.bebits.com/

"I wasn't happy when it had gotten bought out and the product dropped --
BeOS had some interesting ideas built into it."  Totally Agree!  Maybe
because I started with a Mac so really like BeOS interface.  Biggest
problem for me is finding Killer Apps for it.  Have been told that
FireFox http://www.bebits.com/talkback/2715 and SeaMonkey
http://www.bebits.com/app/2310 have really improved as a result, am
interested in retrying them on older P3 hardware.

Gene



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